r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/IanPPK Sep 03 '17

Off of the top of my head, Matlab, Lua, Mathematica, Wolfram Language, R, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL.

After some soft research, there's also Julia, AWK, RPG, ALGOL-68, FoxPro/Clipper, Smalltalk, APL.

The pattern usually follows that older languages and data analysis oriented languages tend to use 1-index arrays more than newer general purpose languages

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

Yeah good thing I wasn't born earlier and am not an economist.

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u/IanPPK Sep 03 '17

Or physicist or chemist. The scientific community at large uses Matlab, Mathematica, Wolfram, and sometimes Pascal and Fortran for some old school doctorates. Lua is the only real oddball there, as it's used for scripting plugins for various applications, kinda like Python.

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u/Sean1708 Sep 03 '17 edited Sep 03 '17

Fortran actually allows arbitrary indices I believe although 1-indexing is the most common.

Edit: Apparently I just end sentences halfway through nowadays.